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Supernova festival parents gather tragic mementoes of lives cut short

Car keys, a pair of boy’s socks and a tattered old fleece are all that remain of their children.

Following the attack on the Nova music festival where 364 people were murdered on October 7, families can now go to gather the belongings of their loved ones that were once just the punctuation of a life yet to live.

Now the objects form the closing chapter of their lives, the last event that defines the dead, solemn comfort for relatives seeking to fill the gap where their sons and daughters should be.

Everything was laid out with care, freshly laundered and folded, as though at home on a bed.

“We washed everything, we dried it and now it can be found here. Jackets, T-shirts, shirts,